Stock divider



E. C. EBERTS. STOCK DIVIDER. APPLICATION nun) JULYIQRIQZI.

Patented May 23,1922.

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Application filed July 19,

To all whom itmay concern. 1 i a i Be it known that it, EDWARD C. Ensure, a citizen of the United Fitates, and resident of Jeffersonville, in the county of Clark and Eitate of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stock Dividers, of which the following is a specification.

My present inventon relates to improvements in stock dividers of the type in which a supply of pulverous orgranular material is divided intocertain proportionate parts. It is designed more especially for use in connection with the feedof material, such for example as grain or grain products to grinding mills, but is advantageous for many other purposes, as for example .in connection withthe reeds-r material to sifter sections, reels, purifiers and in fact any machine or apparatus where division is necessary or desirable. v

The invention aims to provide a formof apparatus which will accurately divide the material under any and all conditionsof material and variations in the supply or flow thereof. j H

The invention further" aims to provide apparatus which will be of simple and durable construction, and require but a negligible amount of power for operation. j i A further object is to provide a construction ada itable to divide the stock into any desired proportionate parts, and into any desired number of parts. j j

With these and other objects in view, the invention includes the novel features of com struction and arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and particularly defined in the appended claims.

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings .in WhlClfl Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section through a stock divider according to my invention.

Fig. 2 1s a transverse section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

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1921. ,der iai No. esteem drawings, the numeral 1 indicates a suitable frame or housing having a substantially centralfeed opening 1 in the top thereof, into which the material to be divided may be fed in any suitable manner. Within the housing 's a substantially cylindrical casing 2 which may be conveniently formed of sheet metal bent up into substantially cylindrical or trough form.

When the housing is of construction rendering this desirable the casing 2 may have wings 2 which are projected into and secured to the walls of the feed opening, thereby serving in part as means for connecting the casing to the housing or frame.

The casing or trough is open at opposite ends topermit free discharge of material. therefrom. i

, Located in the casing and centrally beneath the feedopening is a divider wheel 3 mounted on a shaft d-journaled in the end walls of the housing, which shaft is designed to be driven in any suitable manner.

This wheel has a plurality of segmental pockets or deflecting portions which are alternately arranged and which are designed to register successively with the feed opening, and which have reversely inclined deflecting wallsdesignedto deflect the material alternately towards opposite ends of the casing,ithe wheel itself being of solid or imperforate construction, so that it separates the easing into two compartments.

In my preferred. construction the wheel is composed of two segments, 3 and 3" of sheet metal (each being practically the segment of a truncated cone) reversely placed relati vely to each other and having a central. disc portion 3 joined to the truncated edges which serves for connection to a hub d having a suitable means for attachment to the shaft 41. j

The adjacent edges of the segmental portions are connected by substantially trans verse wallsB, i. e., walls which lie (preferably) in a plane, or planes, coinciding with the axis of the wheel.

'lnthe form shown in Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive, the wheel is designed to divide the stock supplied to the feed opening into exactly equal parts, and to this end the segmental portions are of equal area, or in other words are of duplicate form but reverse arrange ment, and it will readily be seen that as the wheel is rotated at uniform speed the stock will be deflected first towards one discharge end of the casing and then towards the opposite end in exactly equal proportions.

It will be readily understood that this proportion may be varied to any desired extent by varying the proportions of the segmental portions.

As illustrative of this, I have shown in Fig. 4, a wheel adapted to divide the stock in theproportions of 2 to l, and to this end make the segment 3 twice the size of the segment 3, but this is illustrative only, and any desired proportion may be secured by proper ratio of segment surfaces.

If desired deflector wings 3 may be applied to the wheels to assist in the projection of the material into the discharge passages of the casing or trough.

In case it is desired to divide the material into four equal parts, I may use a divider such as shown in Figs. land 2, to first divide it into two equal parts and have such divider discharge at its opposite ends into two similar dividers which would in turn sub-divide each stream intotwo equal parts.

Similarly if a division into three parts is desired I may use a divider having a wheel such as shown in Fig. 4:, dividing the stock in the 2 to l proportion, and again divide the larger stream into, two parts by the divider of Figs. 1 and 2, giving as the final result three equal divisions.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 5 the wheel is provided with tour pockets and is formed from a single blank of sheet metal, the edges of the segmental portions being turned towards each other and overlapped and secured together to form the division walls as indicated at 8 In this form I show deflector wings 5 extending diagonally across the outer portions of the pockets.

A divider such as above described is simple and durable, can be run with a negligible amount of power, and will always divide the stock into correct proportionate parts irrespective of the character or rapidity of feed oi": material thereto, and. cannot become choked in use.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is 1.. A stock divider C0]l']].)l.lSlllf f a station-- ary cylindrical casing, having an intermediate feed opening at the top, and discharge passages below and on opposite sides of said ieed opening, and a divider wheel rotalaldy mounted in said casing below said leed opening and having segmental receiving chambers disposed on opposite sides of the plane of the axis of the opening and designed to communicate alternately with said teed opening and to discharge the material alternately into the discharge passages.

2. A stock divider comprising a cylindrical casing having an intermediate i'eed opening and discharge passages on opposite sides of said i'ecd opening and a divider wheel rotatably mounted in said casing and having segmental receiving chambers dcsignml to communicate alternately with said l'eed opening and to discharge the material. alternately into the discharge passages, said receiving chambers having a relative circumferential extension proportionate to the desired proportions of stock.

3. A stock divider comprising a. casing having a feed opening and discharge passages, and a divider wheel rotatably mounted in the casing centrally of said feed opening and having segmental portions deflected alternately towards opposite sides ol the feed opening, said deflected portions having their adjacent edges COIIDCCiOd by angularly disposed walls.

4. A stock divider comprising a. cylindrical casing having an intermediate feed opening and discharge passages on opposite sides of said feed opening and a divider wheel rotatably mounted in said casing and having segmental receiving chambers designed to communicate alternately with said feed opening and to discharge the material alternately into the discharge passages, said dofiector wheel having deflector wings.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature.

EDWARD C. EBE RTS 

